Unit Four: Early Childhood
Overall Expectations
What is the process of socioemotional development during early childhood?
Specific Expectations
Socialization and play
- Why do children play?
- What are different kinds of play behaviours?
- How can parents encourage nonviolent play?
Moral development
- How and when do children develop moral behaviour?
- How do children learn values?
Gender identity
- How does a gender identity develop?
- What are the differences between the genders?
- What are the sociocultural influences on gender development?
Action research in child development
- Are you afraid that television values are replacing family values
- How are genders represented on television and in young children’s books?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Buy Nothing Day
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness
Unit Five: Middle Childhood
Overall Expectations
Action research in middle childhood development
Specific Expectations
- When, and how do children develop a sense of gender roles?
- How are school-aged children represented on television and in the movies?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Images of Learning
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Overall Expectations
Childhood Development: Socioemotional domain
Specific Expectations
- Who are bullies, and what effects do they have on other people?
MediaSmarts Resources
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Unit Six: Adolescence
Overall Expectations
Physical development during adolescence
Specific Expectations
How important is body image to adolescents?
- What are the general theories about eating disorders?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Media Issue: Body Image
- Selling Obesity
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness
Overall Expectations
Action research in adolescent development
Specific Expectations
What are some commonly held stereotypes and biases about adolescents?
- How does the media influence adolescent perceptions of body image?
How do the cultural industries (beauty, fashion, music) influence adolescent development?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Media Issue: Body Image
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Selling Obesity
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness
Overall Expectations
Identity Management
Specific Expectations
How does our behaviour change in social situations?
- How, and why, do we disclose private and personal information about ourselves to others?
MediaSmarts Resources
The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
Overall Expectations
Mass Media
Specific Expectations
What defines the mass media?
- How does viewing violence on television or in movies - and now in video games - affect the way we behave?
- What influence does the media have on developing aggression and violence, especially in adolescents?
- What influence does the Internet have social relations and behaviour?
- What influence does the media have on society and our culture?
- What is the relationship between cultural values, the media and censorship?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Alcohol on the Web
- Broadcasting Codes
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Digital Issue: Cyberbullying
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Media Issue: Gender Representation
- Media Issue: Violence
- Sex in Advertising
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
- Violence on Television
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Overall Expectations
Gender and the Self
Specific Expectations
What does gender mean?
- How does a gender identity develop?
- What are the differences between the genders?
- What are the sociocultural influences on gender development?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising and Male Violence
- First Person
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Media Issue: Gender Representation
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Overall Expectations
Social Perception
Specific Expectations
What are some problems and issues in forming impressions of people and situations?
- What is the relationship between attribution, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination?
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Challenging Hate Online
- Digital Issue: Online Hate
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- First Person
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Images of Learning
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Media Issue: Diversity in Media
- Media Issue: Gender Representation
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Sex in Advertising
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)